diff --git a/components/device-mgt-extensions/org.wso2.carbon.device.mgt.extensions.device.type.deployer/pom.xml b/components/device-mgt-extensions/org.wso2.carbon.device.mgt.extensions.device.type.deployer/pom.xml
index df0314173c3..b50459eb15f 100644
--- a/components/device-mgt-extensions/org.wso2.carbon.device.mgt.extensions.device.type.deployer/pom.xml
+++ b/components/device-mgt-extensions/org.wso2.carbon.device.mgt.extensions.device.type.deployer/pom.xml
@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@
                         <Import-Package>
                             javax.naming,
                             javax.sql,
+                            javax.xml,
                             javax.xml.bind,
                             javax.xml.bind.annotation,
                             javax.xml.parsers; version="${javax.xml.parsers.import.pkg.version}",
diff --git a/components/device-mgt-extensions/org.wso2.carbon.device.mgt.extensions.device.type.deployer/src/main/java/org/wso2/carbon/device/mgt/extensions/device/type/deployer/util/DeviceTypeConfigUtil.java b/components/device-mgt-extensions/org.wso2.carbon.device.mgt.extensions.device.type.deployer/src/main/java/org/wso2/carbon/device/mgt/extensions/device/type/deployer/util/DeviceTypeConfigUtil.java
index bdf3bd861e5..495a72b48d9 100644
--- a/components/device-mgt-extensions/org.wso2.carbon.device.mgt.extensions.device.type.deployer/src/main/java/org/wso2/carbon/device/mgt/extensions/device/type/deployer/util/DeviceTypeConfigUtil.java
+++ b/components/device-mgt-extensions/org.wso2.carbon.device.mgt.extensions.device.type.deployer/src/main/java/org/wso2/carbon/device/mgt/extensions/device/type/deployer/util/DeviceTypeConfigUtil.java
@@ -21,8 +21,10 @@ package org.wso2.carbon.device.mgt.extensions.device.type.deployer.util;
 import org.w3c.dom.Document;
 import org.wso2.carbon.device.mgt.extensions.device.type.deployer.config.exception.DeviceTypeConfigurationException;
 
+import javax.xml.XMLConstants;
 import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
 import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
+import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
 import java.io.File;
 
 /**
@@ -34,8 +36,12 @@ public class DeviceTypeConfigUtil {
         DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
         factory.setNamespaceAware(true);
         try {
+            factory.setFeature(XMLConstants.FEATURE_SECURE_PROCESSING, true);
             DocumentBuilder docBuilder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
             return docBuilder.parse(file);
+        } catch (ParserConfigurationException e) {
+            e.printStackTrace();
+            return null;
         } catch (Exception e) {
             throw new DeviceTypeConfigurationException("Error occurred while parsing file, while converting " +
                     "to a org.w3c.dom.Document", e);